Revolutionary Road 《革命之路》精讲之一

April: For the first time in your life you'll have time to find out what it is that you actually want to do, and when you figure it out, you'll have the time and the freedom to start doing it.

Frank: Sweetheart, it's just not very realistic, is all.

April: No, Frank. This is what's unrealistic. It's unrealistic for a man with a fine mind to go on working year after year at a job he can't stand, coming home to a place he can't stand, to a wife who's equally unable to stand the same things. You want to know the worst part? Our whole existence here is based on this great premise, that we're special and superior to the whole thing. But we're not. We're just like everyone else. Look at us! We've bought into the same ridiculous delusion. This idea that you have to resign from life and settle down the moment you have children. And we've been punishing each other for it.

Frank: Listen, we decided to move out here. No one ever forced me to take the job at Knox. I mean who ever said I was supposed to bea big deal, anyway?

April: When I first met you, there was nothing in the world you couldn't do or be.

Frank: When you first met me, I was a little wise guy with a big mouth. That's all.

April: You were not. How can you even say that?

Frank: Okay. Okay, so I'll have time. And God knows that's appealing. It's very appealing. Everything you’re saying makes sense if...if I had definite talent. If I were a writer or an artist...

April: Listen. Listen to me. It's what you are that's being stifled. It's what you are that's being denied and denied, in this kind of life. And what's that? Don't you know...? You're the most beautiful and wonderful thing in the world...You're a man.